Price$11.26 – $17.41
Buy on TCGplayerRedirect Lightning
Instant — Lesson
LegalRank #748
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay 
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Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Why is this card good?
Redirect Lightning is a one-mana redirect effect that's genuinely playable thanks to its flexible additional cost — pay 5 life or , so you can fire it off for just when you're flooded with life but short on mana, or vice versa.
The applications are classic spell-pointer fun: turn an opponent's removal back on their own commander, redirect a "target opponent" Demonic Pact or punisher trigger, send their tutor-for-anything ability's... well, redirect works on spells and targeted abilities, which is rare and valuable. Best of all, point their kill spell at their dork instead of your bomb.
This is a tempo/interaction card for spellslinger, Izzet control, or any red deck that wants cheap protection without holding up a full counterspell. It shines in lower-power and pod metas where targeted removal flies freely.
Don't play it in decks light on instant-speed interaction value, or if your meta leans on board wipes and sweepers — redirect does nothing against untargeted effects, making it dead weight too often.
, so you can fire it off for just when you're flooded with life but short on mana, or vice versa.
The applications are classic spell-pointer fun: turn an opponent's removal back on their own commander, redirect a "target opponent" Demonic Pact or punisher trigger, send their tutor-for-anything ability's... well, redirect works on spells and targeted abilities, which is rare and valuable. Best of all, point their kill spell at their dork instead of your bomb.
This is a tempo/interaction card for spellslinger, Izzet control, or any red deck that wants cheap protection without holding up a full counterspell. It shines in lower-power and pod metas where targeted removal flies freely.
Don't play it in decks light on instant-speed interaction value, or if your meta leans on board wipes and sweepers — redirect does nothing against untargeted effects, making it dead weight too often.Related cards
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Printings (3)
Rulings (3)
- 2025-10-02
If a spell or ability targets the same player or object multiple times, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning.
- 2025-10-02
You don't choose the new target for the spell or ability until Redirect Lightning resolves. You must change the target if possible. However, you can't change the target to an illegal target. If there are no legal targets to choose from, the target isn't changed. It doesn't matter if the original target has somehow become illegal itself.
- 2025-10-02
If a spell or ability targets multiple things, you can't target it with Redirect Lightning, even if all but one of those targets have become illegal.